One farming family unhappy with conventional farming they'd done all their lives, now run free range pigs and chickens and a rare breed of Nguni cross cattle at Eton, outside Mackay, in north Queensland.

Orchid enthusiast Heinz Eichorn is still dreaming of finding "the one" - a very rare and elusive underground orchid, which he says he has come very close to discovering near his home in Eton, outside of Mackay in North Queensland.